Verbs
Word                Meaning
abase               degrade                                                                
abjudicate          to settle judicially                                                   
abjure              to renounce or recant                                                  
ablate              to remove by cutting, burning, erosion, or vaporization                
abrade              to wear down or away                                                   
abrogate            revoke                                                                 
abscond             to secretly depart and hide away                                       
accede              to agree                                                               
acclimate           to adjust to a change                                                  
accost              to aggressively approach                                               
acerbate            annoy; irritate                                                        
acquiesce           to comply without protest                                              
actuate             to put into action                                                     
addle               to throw into confusion                                                
adduce              to offer as argument or proof                                          
adjure              to command solemnly                                                    
adulate             to admire excessively or slavishly; to flatter                         
adumbrate           to vaguely foreshadow or intimate; to outline; to partially disclose   
advert              to pay heed or attention                                               
agglutinate         to cause to adhere; fasten; to combine into a mass                     
aggrade             to fill with detrital material                                         
aggrandize          to make greater; to praise; to enhance the power, wealth, reputation   
aggregate           to gather into a mass or whole                                         
agnize              to recognize or acknowledge                                            
amalgamate          to join into one body or organization                                  
ameliorate          to improve or improve the growth of something                          
amerce              to fine or punish                                                      
anathematize        to curse or or pronounce a loathing against a person or thing          
animadvert          to express censure or mention critically                               
anneal              to heat and then cool something to make it less brittle                
annunciate          to pronounce or verbalize                                              
appertain           to belong as a privelege or rightful part                              
ascertain           to determine by inquiry                                                
ascribe             to attribute to a supposed author, source, or cause                    
asseverate          to earnestly assert                                                    
assuage             to relieve pain; to satisfy                                            
attaint             to condemn to loss of civil rights                                     
attenuate           to become or make thin; to weaken                                      
augment             to increase or enlarge                                                 
augur               to foretell or give promis (usually by omens)                          
bedaub              smear                                                                  
bedizen             to adorn with showy or vulgar clothing and jewels                      
begrudge            to reluctantly concede; to be annoyed by; to envy a person's enjoyment 
behoove             to be proper or necessary                                              
belay               stop or quit; to wind around a cleat to secure                         
belie               to prove false; to misrepresent; to run counter to                     
bemire              to cover with, or sink into soil                                       
bemuse              confuse                                                                
berate              to scold harshly                                                       
beshrew             curse                                                                  
besot               to make dull or stupid                                                 
betroth             to promise to marry                                                    
bifurcate           to split                                                               
birl                To cause (a floating log) to spin rapidly by rotating with the feet    
bivouac             to form a camp                                                         
blazon              to publish abroad; adorn                                               
brandish            to shake or wave menacingly                                            
bristle             to show angry defiance                                                 
broach              to pierce in order to draw out the contents; to bring up a topic       
burgeon             grow vigorously or flourish                                            
cadge               to beg or sponge                                                       
calcine             to heat to a high temperature to drive off volatile matter             
calumniate          to slander or accuse falsely and maliciously                           
cant                to tilt up or over; to beg; to talk hypobritically                     
canter              to move slower than a gallop, but faster than a trot                   
carom               to rebound at an angle                                                 
cavil               to find fault without good reason; to present frivolous objections     
cloister            to shut away from all contact with the outside world                   
cloy                to nauseate the senses with an excess of something originally pleasing 
coalesce            to fuse or grow together                                               
collate             to critically compare; to assemble in order                            
commiserate         to sympathize with or feel pity for                                    
comport             agree or conduct                                                       
condole             to express sympathy                                                    
conduce             to contribute to a result                                              
confute             to refute or overwhelm with argument                                   
conscript           to forcibly enroll to military service                                 
consign             to formally deliver; to entrust; allot                                 
consummate          to finish or achieve                                                   
convoke             to call together for a meeting                                         
coruscate           sparkle or flash                                                       
cozen               to cheat or defraud                                                    
croon               to sing in a quiet, low voice                                          
cumber              to weigh down or burden                                                
curtail             to shorten                                                             
dandle              to bounce on one's knee or move upanddown in arms as affectionate  play
darn                mend with interlacing stitches                                         
daub                smear; coat with soft adhesive matter                                  
daunt               to decrease the courage of                                             
debauch             to seduce or corrupt                                                   
debouch             to march or call into an open area                                     
decant              to gently pour                                                         
decimate            to destroy a large part                                                
decry               to publicly belittle; to condemn or find fault with                    
deem                think; judge                                                           
defecate            to refine or free from corruption                                      
defer               to put off                                                             
deflagrate          to burn quickly with intense heat                                      
defray              to provide for payment                                                 
degauss             to strip of magnetic charge                                            
deign               to condescend                                                          
deliniate           to portray or describe in words                                        
deliquesce          to liquify by absorbing moisture from the air                          
deluge              to overwhelm                                                           
demarcate           to separate                                                            
demur               to object or take exception to                                         
denigrate           to defame or cast aspersions                                           
deprave             to corrupt the values of or pervert                                    
deprecate           to express disapproval                                                 
deride              to laugh at scornfully                                                 
derogate            to make something seem inferior; detract                               
descant             to write or discourse at length                                        
descry              to spot; to discover by investigation                                  
dilate              to expand or enlarge                                                   
disabuse            to free from fallacy or error                                          
discombobulate      confuse or upset                                                       
discomfit           to frustrate or upset                                                  
discommode          to trouble or inconvenience                                            
discountenance      to disconcert or embarrass; to with disfavor on                        
disinter            to take from the tomb or grave; to unearth                             
dismay              to cause a loss of courage from alarm                                  
disparage           to lower in reputation; to belittle                                    
disport             amuse; frolic; display                                                 
dissever            to separate                                                            
dissimulate         to hide under a disguise                                               
divagate            to wander around                                                       
dowse               to use a divining rod to find something                                
dragoon             to force into submission by violence                                   
drub                to beat severely                                                       
ebb                 decline                                                                
educe               to elicit; to arrive at through reasoning                              
efface              to obliterate by rubbing out or away                                   
effervesce          to bubble and hiss as gas escapes                                      
effloresce          to burst forth or bloom                                                
elucidate           to make clear or understandable                                        
emasculate          to castrate or weaken                                                  
embrocate           to moisten and rub with medication                                     
embroil             to throw into strife                                                   
emote               to express emotions as if in play                                      
emulate             to strive to equal or better                                           
enamor              to inflame with love                                                   
endue               to provide with a certain power or quality                             
enervate            to weaken in mind or body                                              
engender            to bring into being                                                    
ensconce            to shelter or hide; to settle securely                                 
ensile              to prepare and store for animal feed                                   
enumerate           to list or count                                                       
envisage            to hold a mental picture of something                                  
equivocate          to use misleading language                                             
eschew              to avoid or shun                                                       
estrange            to alienate the confidence or affections of                            
evince              to reveal or show                                                      
eviscerate          to deprive of force or vital content                                   
exacerbate          to make more severe, bitter, or violent                                
excogitate          to think out or devise                                                 
excoriate           to censure with harsh severity                                         
exculpate           to clear from guilt                                                    
execrate            denounce as evil; detest                                               
exhort              to warn, advise, or urge earnestly                                     
expatiate           to talk or write at length                                             
expatriate          to exile                                                               
expectorate         to spit                                                                
expedite            to promptly carry out                                                  
expiate             to make amends                                                         
expunge             obliterate or erase                                                    
expurgate           to clear of objectionable material                                     
extirpate           to uproot; to cut out by surgery                                       
extoll              to glorify or praise highly                                            
extort              to obtain by force                                                     
exude               to discharge gradually through pores or cuts                           
fecundate           to fertilize                                                           
felicitate          to congratulate                                                        
finagle             to use indirect or dishonest means to achieve one's ends               
flagellate          to punish by whipping                                                  
fleer               to grimace or laugh in a coarse manner                                 
flout               to scorn or mock                                                       
flux                to fuse                                                                
foment              to stir up or instigate; to treat with moist heat                      
foray               to raid                                                                
ford                to cross a river or stream by wading                                   
forebode            to portend; to have a premonition                                      
fructify            to make productive or fruitful                                         
fulminate           to explode; to utter invective                                         
furbish             to make lustrous; to renovate                                          
gad                 to roam or wander without purpose                                      
gainsay             to speak against; to dispute                                           
galivant            to roam about for pleasure                                             
gall                to harrass; to chafe                                                   
gally               to confound with fright or frighten excessively                        
gambol              to skip about in play; frolic                                          
geminate            to double                                                              
genuflect           to bend the knee                                                       
gibbet              to execute by hanging; to expose to public scorn                       
glean               to collect with patient effort; to gather grain left by reapers        
gloze               to make appear acceptable or right                                     
gormandize          to eat ravenously                                                      
graft               to join one thing to another                                           
grapple             to seize and hold with a hooked instrument; to wrestle                 
grovel              to lie or creep with the body postrate in fear or humility             
hale                to pull or haul                                                        
hallow              to consecrate or revere                                                
harrow              to torment or vex                                                      
harry               to pillage or raid; to torment with constant attacks                   
haze                to harrass with abusing tricks or humiliation                          
hem                 to surround and restrict                                               
hew                 to cut, fell, or shape with blows                                      
hie                 to hasten                                                              
hurtle              to move with a rushing sound                                           
imbrue              to stain or drench                                                     
imbue               to dye or tinge; to permeate                                           
immolate            to offer in sacrifice                                                  
immure              to enclose as if within walls; to build into a wall                    
impend              to be imminent                                                         
impinge             to strike; to encroach                                                 
impoverish          to make poor or to deprive                                             
imprecate           to curse                                                               
improvise           to invent or arrange offhand                                           
impugn              to attack as false by words or arguments                               
impute              to falsely accuse; to attribute                                        
incarnadine         to redden                                                              
incise              to carve or engrave                                                    
incite              to arouse to action                                                    
incommode           to disturb or incovenience                                             
inculcate           to impress on the mind with frequent repetition                        
inculpate           to involve or implicate in guilt                                       
indemnify           to secure against damage; to compensate for damage                     
indict              to charge with an offense                                              
indite              to compose                                                             
indurate            to make unfeeling or stubborn; to make hardy                           
indwell             to exist within as an activating spirit or principle                   
inflect             to change or vary the pitch of the voice                               
infuse              to instill with a principle; to animate or inspire; to steep           
inhume              to bury                                                                
interdict           to prohibit by decree                                                  
interject           to throw between or among other things                                 
interlard           to introduce or insert at intervals                                    
interlope           to intrude or encroach on the rights of others                         
intermit            to discontinue or discontinue at intervals                             
intone              to utter in prolonged or musical tones                                 
intromit            to send or insert                                                      
intumesce           to swell or enlarge                                                    
inundate            to cover as if with a flood                                            
inure               to accustom to or accept something undesirable; to become advantageous 
inveigh             to complain bitterly or protest vehemently                             
inveigle            to win over by flattery; to acquire by flattery or ingenuity           
jape                to mock or joke                                                        
jettison            to throw items overboard to lighten a ship in distress; to discard     
keen                to lament the dead in a wordless wail                                  
lacerate            to tear roughly                                                        
lacrimation         secretion of tears                                                     
lambaste            to excoriate; to beat                                                  
languish            to become dispirited; to assume an expression of grief for sympathy    
lave                to wash                                                                
laze                to pass the time in idleness or relaxation                             
leach               to pass a liquid through something to carry off soluble components     
leaven              to permeate with a modifying or vivifying element                      
leer                to look at someone maliciously, knowingly, or suggestively             
lignify             to convert into or become wood or woody tissue                         
limn                to draw; to describe or delineate                                      
lionize             to treat as an object of great importance or interest                  
loiter              to hang around idly                                                    
macerate            to cause to waste away; to soften by soaking to separate the parts     
malign              to defame or speak evil of                                             
malinger            to pretend illness in order to escape duty                             
masticate           to chew                                                                
maunder             to wander idly; to speak disconnectedly or indistinctly                
meliorate           to become or make better                                               
micturate           to urinate                                                             
mitigate            to make less harsh, hostile, painful, or severe                        
moil                to labor or work hard                                                  
mollify             to soothe, soften, or reduce in intensity                              
mortify             to subdue; to humiliate; to become gangrenous or necrotic              
nebulize            to reduce to a fine spray                                              
negate              to deny the existence or truth of; to invalidate                       
negation            the act of denying or invalidating                                     
nip                 to destroy the growth or progress of                                   
nonplus             to puzzle or perplex                                                   
obfuscate           to make obscure or dark; to confuse                                    
objurgate           to harshly denounce                                                    
obliterate          to wipe away or cover over; to remove from memory                      
obtrude             to thrust out; to intrude                                              
obviate             to anticipate and dispose of beforehand; to make unnecessary           
occlude             to shut in or out; to take up and hold by absorption; to come together
opine               to express an opinion                                                  
oscillate           to swing back and forth; to fluctuate                                  
osculate            to kiss                                                                
ossify              to change into bone                                                    
ostracize           to exclude from a group by common consent                              
palliate            to ease without curing; to cover by apologies or excuses               
palpate             to examine by touch                                                    
palpitate           to beat strongly and irregularly; to throb or quiver                   
palter              to act insincerely; to haggle                                          
parch               to toast under dry heat; to shrivel with heat                          
parry               to ward off with a weapon; to evade                                    
peculate            to imbezzle                                                            
permeate            to seep through the pores; to pervade                                  
pettifog            to engage in legal trickery; to quibble over insignificant details
philander           to make love without serious intent                                    
pilfer              to steal in small increments or quantities                             
placate             to soothe or appease                                                   
pleat               to fold or braid                                                       
pontificate         to deliver dogmatic opinions                                           
portend             to give sign or forwarning; to indicate or signify                     
postulate           to assume as true                                                      
prate               to talk long and idly                                                  
predicate           to affirm; to base or find; to assert as a quality or attribute        
prevaricate         to deviate from the truth                                              
prognosticate       to foretell from symtoms or signs                                      
promulgate          to make known or put into force by open declaration                    
propitiate          to gain or regain the favor of                                         
proselytize         to convert from one religion or group to another                       
pule                to whine or whimper                                                    
purl                to eddy or swirl; to make a soft, murmuring sound                      
purloin             to appropriate wrongly or felch                                        
purport             to convey outwardly; to claim                                          
purvey              to supply                                                              
quaff               to drink deeply or repeatedly                                          
quaver              to trill; to speak in tremulous tones                                  
queer               to disrupt                                                             
rabbet              to cut a piece into a board's face for holding another board           
ramify              to branch out                                                          
rankle              to become inflamed; to cause anger or irritation                       
rate                to scold violently                                                     
ravish              to seize with violence; to overcome with emotion; to rape              
recant              to take back something                                                 
recapitulate        to restate briefly                                                     
redact              to put in writing; to edit                                             
redound             to have an effect; to become added or transferred                      
reflux              to heat so that vapors condense and return for reheating               
refurbish           to freshen up or renovate                                              
remit               to forgive or pardon; to give relief; to send payment                  
rend                to remove violently; to tear apart                                     
repine              to feel or express discontent or dejection                             
rescind             to repeal, cancel, or annul                                            
resuscitate         to revive from a death-like condition                                  
retard              to hold back or delay                                                  
retrogress          to move backward; decline                                              
revile              to verbally abuse                                                      
rive                to split or rend; to shatter                                           
roil                to make cloudy by stirring; to rile                                    
roister             to engage in noisy revelry                                             
rouse               to wake; to excite into activity                                       
rout                to gouge out; to put into flight; to defeat decisively                 
rue                 to feel regret or remorse                                              
ruminate            to meditate or muse; to chew the cud                                   
rusticate           to go into the country; to suspend from school                         
sanctify            to make holy or free from sin                                          
sashay              glide; to strut or move in an ostentatious manner; to go sideways      
sate                to satisfy until full                                                  
satiate             to satisfy fully; to surfeit                                           
saunter             to stroll casually                                                     
savvy               to comprehend or understand                                            
scintillate         to sparkle or gleam                                                    
scour               to rush; to examine thoroughly; to rub clean; to suffer from diarrhea  
scourge             to lash or flog; to punish severely                                    
scud                to move quickly                                                        
scuff               to shuffle; to scratch or become worn away                             
scull               to propel a boat by an oar over the stern                              
scuttle             to cut or punch a hole in the hull of a ship in order to sink          
sear                to dry or wither; to burn or scorch                                    
seethe              to become violently agitated                                           
shirk               to avoid performing                                                    
shrive              to minister the sacrament of penance to                                
shunt               to turn off to one side                                                
sidle               to move sideways                                                       
simper              to smile in a silly manner                                             
sire                to beget or procreate                                                  
skew                to swerve                                                              
skulk               to move furtively; to sneak or lurk                                    
slake               to cause to subside with or as if with refreshing drink                
smelt               to melt or fuse to separate metals                                     
smite               to strike or to kill by striking                                       
snivel              to have a running nose; to whine                                       
sojourn             to dwell in a large place temporarily                                  
sop                 to steep or dip as if in a liquid; to mop up                           
sorb                to take up and hold by absorption or adsorption                        
sough               to make a moaning or sighing sound                                     
souse               to pickle; to plunge into a liquid; to make drunk; to drench           
spiel               to talk extravagantly                                                  
splay               to spread out; to slope or slant downwards                             
squelch             to move in soft mud                                                    
stipple             to apply with small touches that taken together form a whole           
strafe              to fire upon with machine guns from an airplane                        
straggle            to wander from the course; to become separated from others             
strop               to sharpen a razor on a strop                                          
stultify            to cause to appear foolish; to make untrustworthy                      
subvert             to overthrow or ruin; to corrupt                                       
succor              to aid, help, or provide relief                                        
succumb             to give up; to die                                                     
suffice             to satisfy a need                                                      
suffuse             to spread over or through in the manner of light or a liquid           
superscribe         to write on the top or outside                                         
supervene           to occur as something extra or unexpected                              
supplant            to take the place of by force or trickery; to replace                  
supplement          to fill up the deficiencies of                                         
supplicate          to make a humble entreaty; to ask humbly and earnestly                 
suppurate           to give off or form pus                                                
surfeit             to feed or indulge to the point of disgust                             
surmise             to guess or conjecture                                                 
surmount            to rise above; to lie on top of                                        
swash               to move around with a splashing sound                                  
swathe              to bind or wrap as if with a bandage                                   
swelter             to be oppressed or faint with heat                                     
swig                to drink in long drafts                                                
swill               to swallow greedily                                                    
teem                to become filled to overflowing                                        
tessellate          to form into or adorn with mosaic                                      
thresh              to separate by beating                                                 
throttle            to choke or suppress; to obstruct the flow of                          
thwart              to baffle; to block or defeat                                          
toddle              to walk with short, teetering steps like a child                       
tope                to drink liquor to excess                                              
tousle              to disorder by rough handling                                          
traduce             to lower the reputation of; to defame or slander                       
traipse             to tramp or walk                                                       
trammel             to catch or hold as if in a net; to hamper                             
transduce           to convert into another form                                           
transfigure         to change form; to glorify or exalt                                    
transfix            to pierce through with a sharp point; to hold by piercing with a point 
transfuse           to pass from one to another; to diffuse into or through                
transgress          to exceed or go beyond                                                 
transmigrate        to pass at death from one body to another                              
transmogrify        to alter or change often to humorous effect                            
transmute           to alter or change in form, nature, or appearance                      
transpire           to pass off; to become known or come to light                          
transpose           to change the sequence of                                              
travail             to labor hard; to toil                                                 
traverse            to pass through or penetrate; to travel across; to extend over         
trepan              to remove surgically a disk of bone from the skull                     
triturate           to grind into a fine powder                                            
trow                to think or suppose                                                    
truckle             to submit or yield slavishly to the will of another                    
truncate            to shorten by cutting off                                              
trundle             to roll along                                                          
twit                to reproach or taunt especially by reminding of fault or defect.       
ululate             to howl or wail                                                        
undulate            to make a wavelike motion; to rise and fall in pitch or volume         
venerate            to hold in reverential respect; to adore or worship                    
vex                 to shake or toss about                                                 
vie                 to strive for superiority                                              
vilify              to defame with abusive language; to calumniate                         
vitiate             to pervert; to contaminate; to make legally without force              
vitrify             to change into a glassy substance by heat and fusion                   
vituperate          to abuse with words; to berate severely                                
vivify              to animate or endue with life                                          
vociferate          to shout or cry out loudly                                             
waft                to cause to move lightly as if by wind or waves                        
wale                to mark with stripes                                                   
wamble              to become or feel nauseated                                            
wane                to grow gradually smaller after being full                             
wangle              to obtain by roundabout means; to manipulate                           
wassail             to carouse; to drink to the health of                                  
wax                 to increase in size, number, or duration                               
welter              writhe; to rise and fall with the waves; to become deeply involved     
wend                to direct one's course; to proceed on one's way                        
wheedle             to coax with flattery                                                  
whet                to sharpen by rubbing; to stimulate                                    
whicker             to neigh; to whinny                                                    
whiff               to expel or puff out                                                   
whimper             to make a plaintive whine or broken sound                              
whinny              to neigh in a gentle, low manner                                       
whir                to move with a whizzing sound                                          
whisk               to move quickly and nimbly; to brush off lightly                       
wile                to lure or entice                                                      
wimple              to fall or lie in folds                                                
winnow              to remove by a current of air; to separate, sift, or sort              
wrangle             to quarrel angrily; to gain by bickering                               
wreak               to exact as punishment; to give free reign to                          
wreathe             to fold or coil around; to entwine                                     
wrench              to snatch forcibly; to injure with a sudden twist                      
wrest               to move with a forcible twisting movement                              
writhe              to suffer with shame or confusion                                      
yammer              to whimper or chatter                                                  
yaw                 to deviate side to side from a course                                 

